Hurricane Helene Update and Impacts

The Disaster Podcast team assembled to look at the impacts of Hurricane Helene on the Florida gulf coast at the big bend region. It will also have significant impacts on inland areas in Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and even southern Indiana and Illinois.

The Hurricane made landfall as a category 4 storm with sustained winds around 140 miles per hour. Storm surge in coastal regions expected in excess of 10 feet, with some areas having surge from the Gulf of Mexico up to 20 feet. Hurricane and tropical storm warnings extend to the northern South Carolina coast and inland up to Atlanta, Georgia.

Dr. Joe Holley and his wife Kimberly have been deployed with federal USAR (Urban Search and Rescue) and IST (Incident Support Team) resources. Joe shares their expectations for what they expect to see once the storm has passed and they can move in to begin their rescue work along side local and State rescuers.

Our disaster emergency management expert, Becky DePodwin and host Sam Bradley were also on the call to lend their expertise to the discussion.

Thank you as always to Paragon Medical Education Group for their long-term support of the Disaster Podcast. Dr. Joe Holley and the team at Paragon continue to provide excellent and customized disaster response training to jurisdictions around the U.S. and internationally as well.